Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

246: Ling Long Xian JunYes, a simplified version.

This is not surprising; the true Zhou Heavenly Star Array possesses terrifying power capable of shaking the entire sea of stars.

Power of this level cannot be controlled by anyone except the Immortal King himself.

This is why beings at the end of the Immortal Lord realm can suppress the current world.

Because in this world, there is almost no Immortal King-level power remaining. Even if there is, aside from the Immortal King Scripture, it is all incomplete.

Such as that area of water at the Black Tortoise River Bottom, or the rotting corpse high above this land.

He meditated for a moment and gained some insights, but not many.

His talent in the Dao of Arrays was indeed mediocre, far inferior to his talent in the Martial Dao.

Looking toward the rotting corpse, he stepped through the air toward it. Platinum light separated the swarm of Skeleton Insects, and some of them made crisp sounds as they collided with the platinum light.

Arriving beside the corpse, it was clearly rotting, yet it emitted a delicate fragrance that made one’s body and mind feel comfortable.

The platinum brilliance fell upon the corpse, and the swarming Skeleton Insects thinned out slightly, but it did not solve the fundamental problem.

He withdrew his hand; the corpse of an Immortal King-level being, even after death, remained a nearly insolvable existence.

His current Physical Body was close to being a Law lifeform in its complete state. Although he had not yet completed the rebirth of flesh and blood, it was already far superior to the immortal body of the Emperor Ancestor Sovereign.

One could say that without using the Law of Time, he wouldn’t even need the power of the Ten Directions Overlord Record to have a chance at suppressing the Emperor Ancestor Sovereign at his Peak state.

But even so, it was still far inferior compared to this Immortal King corpse.

Achieving the rebirth of flesh and blood from a Law lifeform was a leap in the level of life.

Looking at this corpse, he couldn’t help but think of the Yellow Sky Divine Mother, and he took out the Brass Heart from his spatial dimension.

Sensibly speaking, this Brass Heart was not a body of flesh and blood, yet it was also completely different from a Law lifeform.

Looking at it this way, the path taken by the Yellow Sky Divine Mother and this mysterious Immortal King seemed to be different.

If an Immortal King returns to the self, then the Yellow Sky Divine Mother was moving toward becoming a dead object.

But without a doubt, these were two equally matched paths, both of which could reach the Immortal King level.

He looked at the Nematode showing its Divine Might within the Skeleton Insect swarm. By now, the Nematode’s size was nearly ten meters large, and its sharp teeth were stained with fine red threads that were being slowly absorbed.

Those were unknown things growing from the brains of the Skeleton Insects.

It seemed that the being suppressed at the river bottom and this rotting Immortal King both followed the Martial Dao, which was why they were devouring each other.

Are they seeking rebirth?

Existences at the Immortal King level are truly too mysterious; no matter what situation arises, it wouldn’t be surprising.

It’s just that he hadn’t expected that the Immortal Kings, who had always had a grand and radiant image, would actually give birth to such terrifying and bizarre creatures after death.

Putting away the Brass Heart, he made a grasping motion, and the platinum brilliance transformed into a giant hand that snatched the Nematode into his palm.

He casually cut off a branch and crushed it. A strange life force dissipated, and the surrounding Skeleton Insects rushed toward that life force as if they had gone mad.

Qin Jiang sensed it silently. After devouring a large number of Skeleton Insects, the strange life force contained within the Nematode had become much more apparent.

With a slight squeeze, a drop of blood floated out and landed in Qin Jiang’s palm.

At the same time, all the Skeleton Insects rushed toward Qin Jiang’s location, but they were all blocked by a layer of platinum shield. Cracks appeared under the impact, but they were repaired in the next moment.

Although these Skeleton Insects could pose a fatal threat to the Saint Lord Level, they were still far from enough to affect him.

Sensing the bead of blood in his hand, the Nematode had devoured a massive amount of skeleton insects; this should be considered a combined product of the suppressed being and this rotting Immortal King corpse.

Although the combination of the two types of life force seemed somewhat mixed, a strange sensation became clearer. ”The life force of death?”

It clearly endowed the Nematode Creatures and those Skeleton Insects with life, yet it also seemed like the culprit that stripped them of their life.

It was such a contradictory feeling.

If deduced in order, it would be that this life force of death, under certain special circumstances, gave rise to the Nematodes and Skeleton Insects.

Afterward, because of the uniqueness of this life force, it stripped the two types of insects of the possibility of continuing to reproduce and evolve.

They could only live forever in a state of being neither alive nor dead.

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration hit him. He grabbed some of the frenzied Skeleton Insects around him and used the power of the Azure Emperor Longevity Record to compress them into a palm-sized sphere.

He raised his hand, holding the small sphere, and made a throwing motion.

”Whoosh!”

A streak of azure light shot toward the distance, disappearing over the horizon in the blink of an eye.

After a breath, a speck of azure light lit up on the horizon, then cut through the swarm of Skeleton Insects and returned to Qin Jiang’s hand.

The azure light dissipated, and fine white sand rustled as it fell away. The Skeleton Insects inside had disappeared.

He nodded slightly; no wonder they could not be obliterated and could not escape a specific range.

They couldn’t be obliterated because they possessed the Immortal King’s deceased life force, which had manifested as a life form under special circumstances.

Fundamentally speaking, neither the Nematode Creatures nor these Skeleton Insects possessed the concept of life and death.

Since they are neither alive nor dead, how can one speak of killing them?

As for why they cannot leave this specific area, it is actually the same reason the Nematode Creatures can survive here.

It is because a special field exists around this rotting Immortal King and the being suppressed at the river bottom. Only within this special field can they maintain their state of being neither alive nor dead.

The reason they devour each other so crazily is likely that they are truly seeking that slim chance of becoming actual living beings.

Looking at it this way, the reason Immortal King Lingxuan did not open that suppression site back then was perhaps because he had long known that the thing being suppressed was not a living object.

The life force it displayed was simply an illusion, so there was no need to deal with it at all.

As for why it could only be opened when an Immortal King was present in the world, it was likely because the suppressed object, even if it was a dead thing without a self-will, still possessed the ability to destroy everything below the Immortal King level.

This was practically a troublesome thing similar to a source of plague; no wonder Immortal King Lingxuan did not take action personally.

After all, an Immortal King who had the longest recorded stay in the mortal world and left behind a neutral Dao land would never do such a thankless task.

Suddenly, he looked at the entrance of the vortex passage blocked by the Skeleton Insects. He raised his hand and squeezed the Nematode outside the light shield into a meatball the size of a longan, then sealed it and stuffed it into his spatial dimension.

The moment the Nematode disappeared, the rioting swarm of Skeleton Insects suddenly came to a standstill, then slowly flowed toward the sky.

In just a few breaths’ time, it had already returned to its original state.

The sealed passage was revealed, covered in a layer of Profound Ice with flames burning inside.

In the next moment, cracks appeared on the Profound Ice, and the internal flames erupted from the fissures.

Bang!

The Profound Ice shattered, and a slender figure dressed in a green silk dress walked in, her eyes meeting Qin Jiang’s.

”Immortal Lord Qin? Why are you here?”